Disturbing account of the way Israeli intelligence, particularly Unit 8200, has evolved over the years, culminating in algorithmically controlled kill lists and supported by high-tech companies like Elbit and Palantir. Includes interviews with ex-IDF personnel.

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Sophia Goodfriend · Kill Lists
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n19/sophia-goodfriend/kill-lists?CMP=firstedition_email

Sophia Goodfriend · Kill Lists

The IDF’s AI-assisted systems allow the military to bypass the many intelligence analysts, munitions experts and...

London Review of Books

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“War is the health of the state.” - Bourne

The identity of the enemy changes – the Arab armies, Nasser, the PLO, Iraq, Iran, Hizbullah, Hamas – but the war never ends because the state is incapable of existence except on the Colonial basis of domination over another people. Escalation of war is duty and destiny.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n20/adam-shatz/after-nasrallah

Adam Shatz · After Nasrallah: Israel’s Forever War

Israel’s leaders claim this war is existential, a matter of Jewish survival, and there is a grain of truth in this...

London Review of Books